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It lets you search and launch your installed apps with style and speed.\n\n---\n\n## Features\n\n- Super fast fuzzy search for all your desktop apps\n- Fully themable via `~/.config/dlauncher/theme` (colors, fonts, window size/position, padding, border radius, and more)\n- Customizable window geometry (width, height, position) and UI padding\n- Font and font size selection for a personalized look\n- Deduplication and prioritization of user-installed apps over system apps\n- Robust .desktop file parsing and normalization\n- Launches any app with all its arguments and flags (handles complex Exec fields)\n- Modern, minimal, distraction-free UI\n- Cross-platform build with CMake (Linux, BSD, and more)\n- Lightweight, fast startup and low memory usage\n- Simple C++17/Qt codebase, easy to hack and extend\n- No telemetry, no ads, no nonsense EVER\n\n---\n\n\n\n## Quick Start\n\n```bash\ngit clone https://github.com/dayvster/DLauncher.git\ncd DLauncher\n./build.sh\n./build/DLauncher\n```\n\nOr build manually:\n\n```bash\nmkdir build \u0026\u0026 cd build\ncmake ..\nmake\n../build/DLauncher\n```\n\n---\n\n## Configuration \u0026 Theming\n\nDLauncher is fully customizable via a simple config file:\n\n**`~/.config/dlauncher/theme`**\n\n```ini\n# Example theme\nbackground=#222222\nborder=#444444\ntext=#ffffff\nhighlight=#00bcd4\ninput_bg=#222222\ninput_border=#444444\nfont=FiraCode\nfont_size=18\nborder_radius=12\npadding=14\nwindow_width=600\nwindow_height=350\nwindow_pos_x=100\nwindow_pos_y=100\nselection=#00bcd4cc\nrow_bg=#33333322\nrow_hover=#00bcd455\n```\n\nIf the file is missing or empty, DLauncher uses beautiful sane defaults.\n\n---\n\n## Dependencies\n\n- Qt 5 or 6 (for GUI)\n- C++17 compiler\n- CMake 3.10+\n\n---\n\n## License\n\nThis project is licensed under the [GPLv3](LICENSE).\n\n---\n\n## Contributing\n\nPRs and issues are welcome! 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